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Schneier on RFID

Amplifying Steve: Bruce Schneier just wrote a good op-ed in the International Herald Tribune on RFID.…

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RFID in our wallets

The Virginia legislature heard testimony today about the wisdom of implanting RFID chips in their state driver's licenses.  No state currently uses RFID chi…

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Areas of interest

Area of interest (1): The Safe Harbor data protection system I am interested in the (practical) advantages and disadvantages of the Safe Harbor framework the E…

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will post soon

been working on a paper on international commercial arbitration which should be done at the end of the week.  will get back to academic copyright issues then.…

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FactCheck.what?

I can't vouch for this, but the folks at Boalt are pointing out that in last night's debate Dick Cheney pointed viewers to FactCheck.com. He probably me…

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Waidner, Property Attestation

Jonathan Poritz, Matthias Schunter, Els Van Herreweghen, Michael Waidner, Property Attestation - Scalable and Privacy-friendly Security Assessment of Peer Compu…

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Mac OS Xbox

I can't help but find it wÿkked awesome that some hackers have managed to successfully install Mac OS X on the Xbox (screenie). Sure, the Xbox was heavily m…

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Too good to not link to

Ballmer, a MS exec, calls all iPod users thieves. I prefer the term "pirate", thank you very much.…

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HUZZAH!

The men and women at SpaceShipOne did it! [Reuters, baby] They won the $10M X-Prize and now they fate of commercial space flight is looking much better. Check…

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More on Linux and iPod

Just free-thinking here, off of Dana's post . . . but what does the interface of the Linux-formatted Mini look like? Is it replacing the Mini's OS with…